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New King James Version

Judges 1:5

And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Bezek;   Bochim;   Canaanites;   Judah;   Simeon;   Scofield Reference Index - Apostasy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;   Judah, the Tribe of;   Punishments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   Bezek;   Canaan;   Perizzites;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   Bezek;   Jerusalem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Bezek;   Bezek;   Gomorrah;   Jerusalem;   Jude, the Epistle of;   Judges, the Book of;   Perizzite;   Sodom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adoni-Bezek;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Bezek;   Canaanites;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Idolatry;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Jude, Epistle of;   Judges (1);   Numbers, Book of;   Palestine;   Perizzites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Destruction;   Jude Epistle of;   People ;   Proportion;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adonibezek;   Bezek ;   Perizzites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adoni-bezek;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adonibezek;   Dan;   Jehoshaphat;   Jerusalem;   Scripture;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Adon'i-Be'zek;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Assyria;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adonibezek;   Joshua (2);   Melchizedek;   Peter, the Second Epistle of;   Providence;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adoni-Bezek;   Adoni-Zedek;   Bezek;   Melchizedek;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, fought against him, and struck down the Canaanites and Perizzites.
Hebrew Names Version
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Kana`anim and the Perizzi.
King James Version
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Lexham English Bible
At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
English Standard Version
They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
New Century Version
There they found Adoni-Bezek, the ruler of the city, and fought him. The men of Judah defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites,
New English Translation
They met Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.
Amplified Bible
Then they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they struck down in defeat the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
New American Standard Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they founde Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and slewe the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now I want to remind you, though you know all things, that Jesus, having once saved a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
Complete Jewish Bible
They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him. They killed the Kena‘ani and the P'rizi,
Darby Translation
And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Easy-to-Read Version
In the city of Bezek, they found the ruler of Bezek and fought him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
George Lamsa Translation
And they found the lord of Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Good News Translation
They found Adonibezek there and fought him.
Literal Translation
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought against him, and struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& they foude Adoni Besek at Besek, & foughte agaynst him, and slewe the Cananites and Pheresites.
American Standard Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Bible in Basic English
And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: And they fought against him, and slue the Chanaanites and Pherezites.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
King James Version (1611)
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites, and the Perizzites.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they overtook Adonibezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they smote the Chananite and the Pherezite.
English Revised Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Berean Standard Bible
And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei founden Adonybozech in Besech, and thei fouyten ayens hym, and smytiden Cananei, and Feresey.
Young's Literal Translation
and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and smite the Canaanite and the Perizzite.
Update Bible Version
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
World English Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
New Living Translation
While at Bezek they encountered King Adoni-bezek and fought against him, and the Canaanites and Perizzites were defeated.
New Life Bible
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they won the war against the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
New Revised Standard
They came upon Adoni-bezek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, and fought with him, - and smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they found Adonibezec in Bezec, and fought against him, and they defeated the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite.
Revised Standard Version
They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites.
THE MESSAGE
They caught up with My-Master-Bezek there and fought him. They smashed the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My-Master-Bezek ran, but they gave chase and caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes. My-Master-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to crawl under my table, scavenging. Now God has done to me what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

Contextual Overview

1 Joshua 15:13-19">[xr] Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, "Who shall be first to go up for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?" 2 And the LORD said, "Judah shall go up. Indeed I have delivered the land into his hand." 3 So Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me to my allotted territory, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I will likewise go with you to your allotted territory." And Simeon went with him. 4 Then Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they killed ten thousand men at Bezek. 5 And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 And Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me." Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. 8 Now the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it; they struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:8 - Bezek

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:13
So the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:19
So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:23
So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:31
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 8:22
"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease."
Psalms 19:2
Day unto day utters speech, And night unto night reveals knowledge.
Psalms 74:16
The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Psalms 104:20
You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they found Adonibezek in Bezek,.... Who was king of, the place, and whose name signifies lord of Bezek; not that they took him there, for he is afterwards said to make his escape from thence, but here he was when they came against that city, and into which they rushed upon him, and fell upon him as follows:

and they fought against him; entering the city with their forces:

and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites: that were in it, or about it, even to the number of ten thousand, as before related, Judges 1:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 1:5. And they found Adoni-bezek — The word מצא matsa, "he found," is used to express a hostile encounter between two parties; to attack, surprise, &c. This is probably its meaning here. Adoni-bezek is literally the lord of Bezek. It is very probable that the different Canaanitish tribes were governed by a sort of chieftains, similar to those among the clans of the ancient Scottish Highlanders. Bezek is said by some to have been in the tribe of Judah. Eusebius and St. Jerome mention two villages of this name, not in the tribe of Judah, but about seventeen miles from Shechem.


 
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